Past Protests

Africa Land Summit Protest: 26th June 2012: Pension fund managers and hedge funds have their eyes on a new money making scheme: to buy up acres and acres of African farmland. They met to discuss their new plans for Africa. Biofuelwatch volunteers joined ActionAid and Friends of the Earth to protest this form of neo-colonialism:

Picture - with thanks to Pete Deane

19th April, Edinburgh: MSPs joined protesters from Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth Scotland, No Leith Biomass Campaign and Grangemouth Community Council outside the Scottish Parliament to demand the end of subsidies for dirty biomass. The Green Party and Labour Party put out press releases to support the call to end subsidies for biomass. Watch a video of speeches given by MSPs Malcolm Chisholm, Alison Johnstone, and Campaigners Davina Shiell (Friends of the Earth Scotland), Mark Haldane (Grangemouth resident) and Emilia Hanna (Biofuelwatch) here.

Cross-party support from Scottish MSPs for the anti-subsidies Biomass Protest. Photo courtesy of Friends of the Earth Scotland

Activists hang a banner across the Mall which boasts 'protected' London Plain trees to show the hypocrisy of the UK Government's willingness to sacrifice more precious trees in endangered forests for 'bio'energy